Numbers 20:12-19

¹²And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron, For ye believed not to me, that ye should hallow me before the sons of Israel, ye shall not lead these peoples into the land which I shall give to them.

¹³This is the water of Against-saying; there the sons of Israel strived against the Lord, and he was hallowed in them.

¹⁴In the meantime Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, the which said, Israel thy brother, sendeth these things to thee. Thou knowest all the travail that hath taken us,

¹⁵how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we dwelled there much time, and Egyptians tormented us, and our fathers;

¹⁶and how we cried to the Lord, and he heard us, and sent an angel that hath led us out of Egypt. And lo! we be set in the city of Kadesh, that is in thine uttermost coasts,

¹⁷and we beseech thee that it be leaveful to us to pass through thy land; we shall not go by thy fields, neither by thy vineries or vines, neither we shall drink waters of thy pits or wells; but we shall go in the common way, and we shall not bow to the right side, neither to the left side, till we pass thy terms.

¹⁸To whom Edom answered, Ye shall not pass by me, else I shall be armed, and come against thee.

¹⁹And the sons of Israel said, We shall go by the way commonly used, and if we and our beasts drink thy waters, we shall give that that is just; no hardness shall be in the price, only pass we in haste.